biomedical - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2003
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Public Funding Essential for Advances in Biomedical Research

29 Apr 2013
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Harvard to receive $50 million to speed translation of research into therapies

Keywords: biomedical; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Scientific Research and Development Services

02 Dec 2010
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Harvard Business School Names New Kaplan Life Sciences Fellows

16 Jun 2014
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Former Medtronic CEO Shares Perspective On Covidien Acquisition

18 Jun 2021
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Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent

17 Jul 2024
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Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

18 Dec 2020
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Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders

01 Dec 2023
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recalls. The chemically engineered cartilage platform had enormous potential for patients with osteoarthritis—more than 650 million people suffer from the degenerative joint disorder worldwide—and other kinds of joint pain. Surakanti and cofounder Dimitrios Angelis... View Details

Keywords: Shoshi Parks

01 Dec 2013
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To Market, to Market

patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007 View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

25 Apr 2014
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Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry

Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Accelerating Therapies

50 million to support programs aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial culture in the life sciences across Harvard with gifts for the new Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and the Blavatnik Fellows program at HBS. "By increasing the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Team Up to Fight Cancer

networking among its alumni community. Bowes, founding partner of US Venture Partners, and Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF), discussed the need for innovative, results-oriented biomedical research and... View Details

Keywords: biomedicine; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2011
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Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

stereotype allows a resident to examine a black patient without drawing the curtain. White also blames the medical culture, which conditions physicians to “focus on the patient’s physiological symptoms and biomedical indications and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition

year, he put together a TED panel titled “Threads of Discovery,” whose panelists include a neuroengineer, a surgeon, an artist, a biomedical engineer, an energy expert, and a hematologist. “It's an incredible opportunity to showcase some... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database, which was developed by Prize4Life together with Massachusetts General Hospital. Independent of the prize, PROACT is a powerful tool for biomedical researchers,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2016
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How I Got to Google

end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2006
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HBS Honors Four Alumni

Currently the chairman of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Philip Yeo has for many years overseen the planning and implementation of the key drivers of Singapore’s remarkable economic successes. Now Yeo is pushing the 250-square-mile city-state... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage

Tufts biomedical engineering professor who had discovered a way to employ silk to create stable vaccine storage. Schrader, with a mechanical engineering background and experience in product development, was intrigued, and joined up with... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

06 Dec 2021
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Vision: Sound Science

doctorate in biomedical engineering and readily admits he still identifies as a scientist, is equally excited about the big-picture impact of receiving orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations. “Disabling hearing loss affects... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

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